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Christmas Markets

I love Christmas shopping, but I really do understand that most sane people view the lead up to the festive holidays as a complete retail nightmare.

The shops are busy, the car parks full, there is the potential for panic buying and a resulting credit card bill to cripple you in the New Year.

However, don’t fret, there’s a better way to fill all of those gaping stockings, plus get into the Christmas spirit a little.

Christmas Markets are increasingly becoming the way to ’do’ Christmas these days, modelled on traditional continental and German markets they are home to a delicious array of unusual arts, crafts and handmade toys, and as such are popping up all over the UK in the lead up to the festive holidays.

Dressed up to the nines in all manner of festive regalia, often accompanied by carol singing and Christmas trees, you would be very hard pressed not to feel a little glow of Christmas spirit in your cheeks.

And if that doesn’t do it for you, no doubt the mulled wine, spicy pickles, hot chestnuts, delicious marzipan stolen and Gluhwein will!

In London you can find loads of festive shopping events, many of them charitable:

Chelsea Physic Garden’s Winter Fair, Chelsea Physic Garden, Swan Walk – 2 Dec
WellBeing of Women, Draper’s Hall, Throgmorton Avenue – 3 Dec
Christmas Cocktail in aid of Save the Children, Banqueting House, Whitehall – 4 Dec
National Trust Sutton House Craft Fair, Homerton High Street – 1-2 Dec
Greenwich Christmas Market – 6-31 Dec
Southbank Christmas Market, Waterloo Quarter – 20-23 Dec

Meanwhile cities across the UK are taking the opportunity to get festive with great markets:

Bath Christmas Market, next to the Abbey - 29 Nov - 9 Dec
Belfast Continental Market, City Hall – 21 Nov - 18 Dec
Birmingham Frankfurt Christmas Market, Victoria Square – 15 Nov - 23 Dec
Bristol St Nicholas Christmas Markets, Corn Street – 24 Nov - 8 Dec
Edinburgh German Market, Mound Precinct – 29 Nov - 24 Dec
Glasgow German Christmas Market, St Enochs Square – 23 Nov - 23 Dec
Leeds Christkindelmarket, Millennium Square – 16 Nov - 20 Dec
Liverpool Continental Market, Croxteth Hall & Country Park, Muirhead Avenue East – 25 Nov, 2, 9, 15 Dec 2020
Manchester Christmas Markets, Albert Square – 15 Nov - 19 Dec
Nottingham German Market, Old Market Square - 21 Nov - 20 Dec
Plymouth Christmas Markets, City Centre – 20 Nov - 22 Dec
Sheffield Christmas Market, Fargate – 13 - 16 Dec
Southampton Christmas Market, Above Bar Precinct – 17 Nov - 22 Dec